Sixteenth Sunday of the Year: Wis 12:13 & 16-19; Rm 8: 26-27; Mt 13:24-43
Spiritual Life
We should always begin prayer with a conscious surrender to the Holy Spirit
Friday, 15 July 2011
The word this week
The Sister who saw in a vision her own heart made of steel
Friday, 8 July 2011
Saint of the week
St Veronica Giuliani (July 9) received well-attested imprints of the stigmata
Daily readings: July 10 – 16
Friday, 8 July 2011
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The grace of God, like rain and snow watering the desert, summons us to new life
Friday, 8 July 2011
The word this week
Fifteenth Sunday of the Year: Is 55:10-11; Rm 8:18-23; Mt 13:1-23
The girl who was murdered at the age of 11
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Saint of the week
St Maria Goretti (July 6) died while resisting a rape. Her murderer later repented and had a vision of the Virgin Mary
Daily readings: July 3 – 9
Thursday, 30 June 2011
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The kind of king who arrived on a donkey
Thursday, 30 June 2011
The word this week
Fourteenth Sunday: Zec 9:9-19; Rm 8:9 and 11-13; Mt 11:25-30
The 17th-century martyr whose corpse was found in the 1920s
Friday, 24 June 2011
Saint of the week
St John Southworth (June 28) was arrested five times before he was eventually hanged
Daily readings: June 26 – July 2
Friday, 24 June 2011
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
‘Whoever eats this bread will draw life from me’
Friday, 24 June 2011
The word this week
The Body and Blood of Christ: Deut 8 2-3 & 14-16; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6: 51-58
Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie